Shripad Tuljapurkar - Biology, Stanford
The Final Inequality: Variance in Age at Death
Date: 11/10/2011 (Thu)
Time: 3:30pm- 5:00pm
Location: Seminar will be held on-site: Rubenstein Hall 200
Organizer: Anatoli Yashin
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All meetings will be held in the same location as the seminar unless otherwise noted.
Wednesday, 7:00pm - Dinner -- Anatoli Yashin, Giovanna Merli
Thursday, 9:30am - Pick up at Washington Duke -- Anatoli Yashin
11:00am - Katherine King
11:30am - Igor Akushevich, Konstantin Arbeev, Alex Kulminski and Anatoliy Yashin
12:00pm - Lunch -- Igor Akushevich, Konstantin Arbeev, Alex Kulminski and Anatolyi Yashin
1:00pm - Jacob Moorad
1:30pm - (RH 240) meeting with DuPRI students; Ting Li, Poh Lin
2:30pm - Giovanna Merli
3:00pm - Jim Moody
3:30pm - Seminar Presentation (3:30pm to 5:00pm)
6:00pm - Dinner with Anatoliy Yashin, Eric Stallard, Ken Land, seth sanders
Additional Comments: Abstract: There has been great interest in one dimension of mortality change, aggregate human life expectancy. I focus on a distinct dimension, the variance in the age at adult death. I explain why this measure matters, discuss historical trends in this variance, and compare trends across countries. I discuss the relationship between the pattern of adult death and socioeconomic inequalities, in factors such as education and income, using data from the US. Finally I examine the sources of variance in the context of models of the life cycle.